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Uli Send message Joined: 6 Feb 00 Posts: 10923 Credit: 5,996,015 RAC: 1 |
Thank you Michael. I am only a guest here, so I can't vote. I could always go home, but then again, I never voted there either. Hate me for it, but I sleep better at night. The last nightmare I had, was when I was 6. Pluto will always be a planet to me. Seti Ambassador Not to late to order an Anni Shirt |
Michael Send message Joined: 21 Aug 99 Posts: 4608 Credit: 7,427,891 RAC: 18 |
Thank you Michael. I am only a guest here, so I can't vote. I could always go home, but then again, I never voted there either. The war on drugs in America is actually big business. They've demonized weed to the point where tens of billions of dollars is used to prop up the anti-weed industry. Entire ecosystems feeding off each other creating this huge waste. Think about it..in America local police agencies get huge funds to help combat the weed "problem"...more equipment is purchased (manufacturers dream), more people are hired, privatized prisons get paid...the list goes on and on. I could sit here for an hour typing that out... If you stopped fighting weed, billions would be pulled out of the economy, people would lose jobs, prisons would close..the horror. It's all about the almighty $$...and has absofrigging nothing to do with saving lives. Keeping weed illegal is a booming business. Keeping people scared to death of it helps raise money, help politicians get elected. It's all about the money...and nothing else. |
Terror Australis Send message Joined: 14 Feb 04 Posts: 1817 Credit: 262,693,308 RAC: 44 |
Thank you Michael. I am only a guest here, so I can't vote. I could always go home, but then again, I never voted there either. +1 Michael, It's obvious we don't disagree on everything. The drug cartels and law enforcement form an evil symbiosis. Neither side wants legalisation as they both have too much to lose. T.A. |
Michael Send message Joined: 21 Aug 99 Posts: 4608 Credit: 7,427,891 RAC: 18 |
Thank you Michael. I am only a guest here, so I can't vote. I could always go home, but then again, I never voted there either. Agree, perhaps an oversight of mine, I forgot to include the drug dealers. They would lose money as well...the only reason they make tons of money is because their product is illegal..if you make it legal and tax it, the drug dealers profit margin goes away. |
Uli Send message Joined: 6 Feb 00 Posts: 10923 Credit: 5,996,015 RAC: 1 |
Yes Michael. I think Chris is a bit jaded. I still love him tho. Pluto will always be a planet to me. Seti Ambassador Not to late to order an Anni Shirt |
Matt Giwer Send message Joined: 21 May 00 Posts: 841 Credit: 990,879 RAC: 0 |
Drugs are drugs are drugs, whether they are soft or hard, or classed as recreational. Which is another separate problem. Alcohol is not addictive to everyone. It is hard to tell drunks from alcoholics but I have read estimates in the 10-12% range of addiction. I can also suggest that the serious problem is with distilled alcohol having read some descriptions of "gin alley" when it first became popular and allowing for puritanical descriptions. From this all I suggest is that the addiction gene has been in the process of being eliminated by the Darwin Awards longer than for any other population group. So yes, it might have really been true you can't give firewater to Indians for the same reason it should not have been given to Elizabethan Englishmen. If this is correct then it also explains why Aussies don't give it to Abos either. (I really do know better than saying it that way. Just like to bang the cages of the politically correct.) To modernize it Meth is a much more popular drug in white middle class and upper class America than in the minority areas where the arrests are made. I am not going to suggest the addiction rate is any different rather simply that if it were addictive to everyone then the white middle and upper class would have disappeared a decade ago. IF it is addictive THEN only to a fraction of the population. At what fraction does it make sense to prohibit a substance? 90% sounds like a no brainer. But how about 20%? But then if that 20% is going to use it anyway if not this generation then the next or the next, if twer done tis best twer done quickly. Get the addiction gene out of the pool as quickly as possible. Prohibition merely prolongs the pain. Unvarnished Haaretz Jerusalem Post The origin of the Yahweh Cult |
Matt Giwer Send message Joined: 21 May 00 Posts: 841 Credit: 990,879 RAC: 0 |
I certainly am. It'll make it much safer. If one can legally buy the stuff from a registered seller, rather than from some street corner which could be mixed with who knows what. I cannot date what I read but the cost of medical grade was at the time seven dollars a gram. The good news is the more dealers the purer the cocaine. Successful drug importers are doing what the FDA should be doing. More successful drug interdiction will just degrade the product with dangerous substances. At some time you have to conclude the government really does know what it is doing and why. Stop complaining about government stupidity and just as it was during prohibition look for how they are personally profiting from keeping drugs illegal. Unvarnished Haaretz Jerusalem Post The origin of the Yahweh Cult |
The Simonator Send message Joined: 18 Nov 04 Posts: 5700 Credit: 3,855,702 RAC: 50 |
I know Es's views on pot and she will remember the local police commander in South London who went soft on it amidst a lot of condemnation. His view was it allowed his officers to concentrate on harder drugs. This 10 years old but has some good points. This booklet is an attempt to get some facts straightSince when have Christian organisations been concerned with facts? It's very strange that cannabis should be illegal, yet alcohol is freely sold. Roaming the streets of a friday night demolishing bus stops and throwing punches at every passing lifeform, that's fine, but sitting in a huddle in a student bedsit giggling at reruns of the magic roundabout (i expect...), that's a danger to society and must be stamped out! Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge. |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
We all do what? Roam the streets at night? Thought you were an early to bed early to rise lark? Bit late last night weren't you? |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
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Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
We all do what? Roam the streets at night? Ah the chicken finally came home to roost! I can recall many times on these boards where you requested my links with Canada..... ..Quite inexplicable don't you think? |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
I can recall many times on these boards where you requested my links with Canada..... Go back and read your posts. exaggeration or not, you did ask did you not and continued to pursue it. Very inexplicable! |
The Simonator Send message Joined: 18 Nov 04 Posts: 5700 Credit: 3,855,702 RAC: 50 |
Quite why my bedtime hour should be of any interest to you, is quite inexplicable. It varies whether or not we have friends over for dinner, if you must know. Am i the only one missing the link here? Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge. |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Quite why my bedtime hour should be of any interest to you, is quite inexplicable. It varies whether or not we have friends over for dinner, if you must know. Have a word with Charles Darwin, oops sorry Mr S. |
Es99 Send message Joined: 23 Aug 05 Posts: 10874 Credit: 350,402 RAC: 0 |
Perhaps the pair of you should go have a joint and calm down? Reality Internet Personality |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Am i the only one missing the link here? Suggest you visit your opticians. My RAC is quite nice actually crunching other projects. I note that you have a very high TC, is that all done on S@H only? Chris S Total Credit Blue collar workers are not afraid to get their hands dirty... BTW thanks for the red X over the permissions issue. you wanted to get this board closed, thanks to you, the whole forum may be closed as last time it was a bluff, this time around an official complaint has gone in over copyright issues. That I know will be acted upon. @Es99 I don't do drugs. |
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